Geomorphic Morphometrics on canid skulls

Running principal component and k-means clustering analyses

dir.create("./results", showWarnings = F)
dir.create("./results/figures", showWarnings = F)
source("./src/GM_stats.R")

Performing GPA

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Making projections... Finished!

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Plotting PC and k-means results

K-means clustering plot:

Kennel-club groupings and PC results:

Too few points to calculate an ellipse

Discriminant Factors between groups

Comparison of landmarks between group means

# Extracting first 5 PCs and each kennel-club grouping scheme
skulls <- cbind(SlicerMorph.repc[, 1:5], 
                "UKC" = factor(SlicerMorph.repc$UKC, ordered = T, levels = UKC_group_order), 
                "AKC" = factor(SlicerMorph.repc$AKC, ordered = T, levels = AKC_group_order),
                "bitework" = factor(SlicerMorph.repc$Bitework),
                "scentwork" = factor(SlicerMorph.repc$Nosework))
skulls <- na.omit(skulls)

# Create a paired and ordered GPA-grouping object
mixdrop<-gpa$coords[,,order(dimnames(gpa$coords)[[3]])]
mixdrop<-mixdrop[,,-96]

reforge<-geomorph.data.frame(shape = mixdrop,
                             UKC = na.omit(factor(SlicerMorph.repc$UKC, ordered = T)),
                             AKC = na.omit(factor(SlicerMorph.repc$AKC, ordered = T)),
                             bitework = na.omit(factor(SlicerMorph.repc$Bitework[-96])),
                             scentwork = na.omit(factor(SlicerMorph.repc$Nosework[-96])))

# Create a function that subsets the mean landmarks for each group and does a pairwise subtraction and squaring of those means
meanforge <- function(target, group) {
  #sub-setting the means and sending them to a new object
  new.coords<-coords.subset(target[["shape"]], group = target[[group]])
  output_means<-lapply(new.coords, mshape)
  #perform the subtraction and squaring of the pairwise combinations
  result<- combn(output_means, 2, function(x) (x[[1]]-x[[2]])^2, simplify = FALSE)
  #rename the pairs so they're readable
  names(result)<-combn(names(output_means), 2, function(n) paste(n[1], "-", n[2]), simplify = TRUE)
  return(result)
}

#now run the function for each grouping scheme. Each member of the list will be named based on which two groups are compared
meanshape.UKC<-meanforge(reforge,"UKC")
meanshape.AKC<-meanforge(reforge,"AKC")
meanshape.nose<-meanforge(reforge,"scentwork")
meanshape.bite<-meanforge(reforge,"bitework")

Reformatting data for visualization:

calc_gpa_dist <- function(dat){
  require(tidyr)
  n <- length(names(dat))
  results <- matrix(NA, nrow = nrow(dat[[1]]), ncol = n)
  results <- as.data.frame(results)
  results <- cbind(seq(1,nrow(results)), results)
  colnames(results) <- c("landmark",names(dat))
  
  for(i in names(dat)){
    results[[i]] <- sqrt(dat[[i]][,"X"]^2 + dat[[i]][,"Y"]^2 + dat[[i]][,"Z"]^2)
  }
  results_long <- pivot_longer(results, cols = -"landmark", names_to = "comparison")
  results_long$landmark <- factor(results_long$landmark)
  return(results_long)
}

meanshape.AKC[["plotting"]] <- calc_gpa_dist(meanshape.AKC)
meanshape.UKC[["plotting"]] <- calc_gpa_dist(meanshape.UKC)
meanshape.bite[["plotting"]] <- calc_gpa_dist(meanshape.bite)
meanshape.nose[["plotting"]] <- calc_gpa_dist(meanshape.nose)

meanshape.AKC[["plotting"]]$short <- ifelse(grepl("toy", meanshape.AKC[["plotting"]]$comparison, 
                                                  ignore.case = T),
                                           "toy", 
                                           ifelse(grepl("natural", meanshape.AKC[["plotting"]]$comparison,
                                                        ignore.case = T),
                                                  "natural", "other"))
meanshape.AKC[["plotting"]]$short <- factor(meanshape.AKC[["plotting"]]$short, 
                                            ordered = T, levels = c("toy", "natural", "other"))
meanshape.UKC[["plotting"]]$short <- ifelse(grepl("companion", meanshape.UKC[["plotting"]]$comparison,
                                                      ignore.case = T),
                                           "companion", 
                                           ifelse(grepl("natural", meanshape.UKC[["plotting"]]$comparison,
                                                      ignore.case = T),
                                           "natural", "other"))
meanshape.UKC[["plotting"]]$short <- factor(meanshape.UKC[["plotting"]]$short, 
                                            ordered = T, levels = c("companion", "natural", "other"))

AKC & UKC groups:

p_UKC_compare <- ggplot(meanshape.UKC[["plotting"]], aes(landmark, value, color = short)) + 
  geom_point(position = position_jitter(width = 0.1)) + 
  geom_hline(yintercept = meanshape.UKC[["cutoff"]]$mean+2*meanshape.UKC[["cutoff"]]$sd,
             lty = 2) +
  scale_color_viridis_d(name = "Comparison against") +
  ylab("DFA distance squared") +
  ggtitle("UKC group comparisons") +
  theme_bw() + 
  theme(legend.position = "inside", legend.position.inside = c(0.75,0.65),
        legend.background = element_rect(color = "gray30", fill = "white", linetype="solid",
                                         linewidth = 0.2))

p_AKC_compare <- ggplot(meanshape.AKC[["plotting"]], aes(landmark, value, color = short)) + 
  geom_point(position = position_jitter(width = 0.1)) + 
  geom_hline(yintercept = meanshape.AKC[["cutoff"]]$mean+2*meanshape.AKC[["cutoff"]]$sd,
             lty = 2) +
  scale_color_viridis_d(name = "Comparison against") +
  ylab("DFA distance squared") +
  ggtitle("AKC group comparisons") +
  theme_bw() +
    theme(legend.position = "inside", legend.position.inside = c(0.75,0.65),
        legend.background = element_rect(color = "gray30", fill = "white", linetype="solid",
                                         linewidth = 0.2))
p_AKC_compare / p_UKC_compare

Nosework and Bitework:

p_bite_compare <-  ggplot(meanshape.bite[["plotting"]], aes(landmark, value, color = comparison)) + 
  geom_point(position = position_jitter(width = 0.1)) + 
  geom_hline(yintercept = meanshape.bite[["cutoff"]]$mean+2*meanshape.bite[["cutoff"]]$sd,
             lty = 2) +
  scale_color_viridis_d(name = "Group-group\ncomparison") +
  ylab("DFA distance squared") +
  ggtitle("Bite-work group comparisons") +
  theme_bw()
p_nose_compare <- ggplot(meanshape.nose[["plotting"]], aes(landmark, value, color = comparison)) + 
  geom_point(position = position_jitter(width = 0.1)) + 
  geom_hline(yintercept = meanshape.nose[["cutoff"]]$mean+2*meanshape.nose[["cutoff"]]$sd,
             lty = 2) +
  scale_color_viridis_d(name = "Group-group\ncomparison") +
  ylab("DFA distance squared") +
  ggtitle("Scent-work group comparisons") +
  theme_bw()

p_bite_compare / p_nose_compare + plot_layout(guides = "collect")

MANOVA

man_UKC <- manova(as.matrix(skulls[,1:5])~skulls$UKC)
summary.aov(man_UKC, test="Pillai")

 Response PC.1 :
             Df  Sum Sq  Mean Sq F value    Pr(>F)    
skulls$UKC    8 0.65020 0.081275  35.372 < 2.2e-16 ***
Residuals   107 0.24585 0.002298                      
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

 Response PC.2 :
             Df   Sum Sq   Mean Sq F value    Pr(>F)    
skulls$UKC    8 0.073427 0.0091783  6.0866 1.902e-06 ***
Residuals   107 0.161352 0.0015080                      
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

 Response PC.3 :
             Df   Sum Sq    Mean Sq F value  Pr(>F)  
skulls$UKC    8 0.016265 0.00203313  2.4906 0.01612 *
Residuals   107 0.087348 0.00081633                  
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

 Response PC.4 :
             Df   Sum Sq    Mean Sq F value    Pr(>F)    
skulls$UKC    8 0.024974 0.00312178  5.7231 4.625e-06 ***
Residuals   107 0.058365 0.00054547                      
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

 Response PC.5 :
             Df   Sum Sq    Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
skulls$UKC    8 0.000574 0.00007179  0.1633 0.9951
Residuals   107 0.047029 0.00043952               

lda_UKC <- MASS::lda(skulls$UKC~as.matrix(skulls[,1:5]))
lda_UKC

Call:
lda(skulls$UKC ~ as.matrix(skulls[, 1:5]))

Prior probabilities of groups:
       NATURAL        Herding        Terrier      Companion        Gun dog       Guardian 
    0.19827586     0.23275862     0.08620690     0.12068966     0.05172414     0.09482759 
Northern Breed     Sighthound     Scenthound 
    0.02586207     0.14655172     0.04310345 

Group means:
               as.matrix(skulls[, 1:5])PC.1 as.matrix(skulls[, 1:5])PC.2 as.matrix(skulls[, 1:5])PC.3
NATURAL                         -0.11869015                 -0.019063433                   0.04817564
Herding                         -0.12101159                  0.026436494                   0.04577986
Terrier                         -0.05852371                  0.001880539                   0.04485686
Companion                        0.09983210                  0.018101105                   0.02331451
Gun dog                         -0.11168214                  0.041234328                   0.04624008
Guardian                        -0.06180271                  0.065382213                   0.06595086
Northern Breed                  -0.06497801                  0.049661060                   0.06220728
Sighthound                      -0.15480497                  0.029842740                   0.02964807
Scenthound                      -0.12915491                  0.049368307                   0.04321946
               as.matrix(skulls[, 1:5])PC.4 as.matrix(skulls[, 1:5])PC.5
NATURAL                        -0.016530397                    0.1158473
Herding                         0.013615782                    0.1190599
Terrier                         0.032376419                    0.1152870
Companion                       0.011348484                    0.1182048
Gun dog                         0.007520818                    0.1204955
Guardian                        0.003014570                    0.1207284
Northern Breed                 -0.017512289                    0.1170088
Sighthound                      0.018704155                    0.1147247
Scenthound                      0.010813419                    0.1131374

Coefficients of linear discriminants:
                                    LD1        LD2        LD3       LD4          LD5
as.matrix(skulls[, 1:5])PC.1  21.465233   2.072852   2.157478  1.232714   0.61490553
as.matrix(skulls[, 1:5])PC.2   2.130815 -20.151953  14.104686 -8.508683   1.48405135
as.matrix(skulls[, 1:5])PC.3 -13.131521   1.216403  21.217452 26.189753   4.17032936
as.matrix(skulls[, 1:5])PC.4  10.561161 -31.562092 -23.132983 17.258716  -0.02015756
as.matrix(skulls[, 1:5])PC.5   2.636558  -2.368104   6.558913  4.347214 -46.98480500

Proportion of trace:
   LD1    LD2    LD3    LD4    LD5 
0.7331 0.1664 0.0818 0.0172 0.0015 

Testing of Functional Groups

bite_yes_canine <- bite_data$canine[bite_data$Bitework == "yes"]
bite_no_canine <- bite_data$canine[bite_data$Bitework == "no"]
shapiro.test(bite_yes_canine)

    Shapiro-Wilk normality test

data:  bite_yes_canine
W = 0.95076, p-value = 0.5726

shapiro.test(bite_no_canine)

    Shapiro-Wilk normality test

data:  bite_no_canine
W = 0.97244, p-value = 0.08128

t.test(bite_yes_canine, bite_no_canine)

    Welch Two Sample t-test

data:  bite_yes_canine and bite_no_canine
t = -0.30306, df = 36.495, p-value = 0.7636
alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
95 percent confidence interval:
 -9.152725  6.771939
sample estimates:
mean of x mean of y 
 57.78286  58.97325 

bite_yes_carnassial <- bite_data$carnassial[bite_data$Bitework == "yes"]
bite_no_carnassial <- bite_data$carnassial[bite_data$Bitework == "no"]
shapiro.test(bite_yes_carnassial)

    Shapiro-Wilk normality test

data:  bite_yes_carnassial
W = 0.92608, p-value = 0.2687

shapiro.test(bite_no_carnassial)

    Shapiro-Wilk normality test

data:  bite_no_carnassial
W = 0.96684, p-value = 0.03577

t.test(bite_yes_carnassial, bite_no_carnassial)

    Welch Two Sample t-test

data:  bite_yes_carnassial and bite_no_carnassial
t = -0.52911, df = 42.805, p-value = 0.5995
alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
95 percent confidence interval:
 -9.417946  5.503589
sample estimates:
mean of x mean of y 
 57.12857  59.08575 

bite_natural_canine <- bite_data$canine[bite_data$Bitework == "NATURAL"]
shapiro.test(bite_natural_canine)

    Shapiro-Wilk normality test

data:  bite_natural_canine
W = 0.91337, p-value = 0.2672

bite_fox_canine <- bite_data$canine[bite_data$Bitework == "FOX"]
shapiro.test(bite_fox_canine)

    Shapiro-Wilk normality test

data:  bite_fox_canine
W = 0.82835, p-value = 0.03197

t.test(bite_yes_canine, bite_natural_canine)

    Welch Two Sample t-test

data:  bite_yes_canine and bite_natural_canine
t = -1.6371, df = 13.462, p-value = 0.1248
alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
95 percent confidence interval:
 -29.241240   3.979681
sample estimates:
mean of x mean of y 
 57.78286  70.41364 

t.test(bite_yes_canine, bite_fox_canine)

    Welch Two Sample t-test

data:  bite_yes_canine and bite_fox_canine
t = -0.85342, df = 10.859, p-value = 0.4119
alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
95 percent confidence interval:
 -29.77613  13.15585
sample estimates:
mean of x mean of y 
 57.78286  66.09300 

For the paper:

Figure 2:

Too few points to calculate an ellipse

Too few points to calculate an ellipse

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